M.C.S.P., C13-148L

P.O. Box 409060

Ione, Ca 95640
 

7^th February, 2008
 
 

The Hon. KEVIN RUDD MO

PRIME MINISTER

Parliament House

Canberra ACT 2600

AUSTRALIA
 

Mr. Prime Minister,
 

I must apologize that I do not know the correct form of address to use when writing to you, sir, please forgive any transgression.
 

I have to congratulate you upon finally restoring legitimacy to the Government of our Nation.
 

It is sad that the voice of the people has been muted for so long!
 

I am sure that you will be aware that I am incarcerated in durance most vile in this country.
 

I must advise you that I have been denied a legitimate trial, and have the record to show to verify same.
 

I as denied assistance of counsel by the denial of effective assistance of counsel, and subsequently denied the right to defend myself.
 

The record does show this, and that I in fact, invoked the right to self-representation no less than four times.
 

The right (guaranteed under the United States Constitution) was denied those four times—(also upon the record).
 

Therefore I was denied the most basic and fundamental ingredient of a trial (under common law, State law, and U.S. Federal Constitutional law), thereby also I was denied a trial.
 

When the previous government of Australia was in the process of withdrawing my Australian Passport, I attempted to make this plain to the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Department of Foreign Affairs, but my protestations were to no avail.
 

It seems that the Australian Liberal Government considers that the United States legal system is quite legitimate (despite the fact the two closest neighbours [Mexico and Canada] have listed the United States as a terrorist Nation that condones and uses torture).
 

It remains a fact that I have not yet exhausted the appeals process, and that I was forced to languish in a country jail for almost three years (until they discovered a “Lawyer” who would work for the county whilst pretending to represent me.
 

The record shows that that attorney blatantly disclosed confidential attorney/client discussions in open court and upon the record, to the detriment of his client (namely myself).
 

In most places such conduct would suffice to have the attorney disbarred, and any subsequent action declared null and void!
 

Had there been any form of a real case against me, they would have well and truly tried (and convicted) me legitimately very quickly.
 

Instead they held me for almost three years—waiting—isolated from family, friends, and my very homeland. . .whilst at every turn attempting to isolate me from the Australian Consular officials that would possible assist me.
 

They once even attempted to kill me to avoid my speaking with a consular representative (in April of 2003).
 

This is a flagrant violation of Articles 35 and 36 of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations Treaty.
 

Even now, after more than five years of incarceration I am never permitted unrecorded telephonic communication with Consular Officials, and, I believe, my consular and legal mail is being opened and read (one occasion someone forgot something and one of my legal communications was returned to me opened and unsealed.
 

[I am in the process of filing suit upon that subject, against various individuals, entities, and the people of the United States].
 

As you may be aware, this country started out as a slave-powered economy.
 

First they used convict labour (called “indentured Servants,” to sanitize the process).
 

Then, after revolting against the Crown, they were forced to look to another source of slaves. . .and turned to Africa as a source of slaves.
 

After their uncivil war they resumed using convict and prisoner labour, this time in the form of chain gangs and slave-labour in prisons (which practice is utilized here in this prison under the guise of the “PRISON INDUSTRY AUTHORITY”).
 

Additionally the states depend upon the Federal government for funding to maintain their prisoner population, thereby augmenting the economies of the states.
 

(In other words, it is extremely beneficial and advantageous to those states to maintain a large prison population—hence a per capita prison population of sixty times that of the People’s Republic of China.)
 

Unfortunately the prisoners are not the only slaves.
 

Recently a number of Filipino nurses were hired to work in New York. They discovered that the job description they had agreed to was nothing like the reality of the jobs they were supposed to do, and the pay was far below the agreed—upon amount.
 

When the nurses quit en-mass (leaving one of their number to monitor the patients), there were arrested and charged with criminal charges.
 

There can be no better demonstration that they were, in fact, slaves. 
 

It is a well known fact also, that there is only one entity that has ever used nuclear weapons against civilian (or other) targets, and that country used them twice.
 

(During the current occupation of the sovereign nation of Iraq, the US forces have several times been disclosed as torturing, raping, and murdering innocent civilians (in one instance, an infantry squad murdered an entire family so that they could rape a young girl, and then they killed her.)
 

That conduct is NOT restricted to the battle zones.
 

Soon after I was incarcerated in Shasta County Jail, I was digitally Raped by a male deputy, while his female companion kept guard and watched.
 

The offender said, “Have a nice day, Jew,” as he stepped away!
 

That was not the only torture, though.
 

For the almost three years they had me in Shasta County Jail, I was NOT allowed to have my prostheses (false teeth, prescription spectacles, and hearing aids) . . .in an effort to coerce me into accepting a “DEAL”!
 

As I stated earlier, I was denied Consular access. . . in point of fact, I was forced to use a third party (an off-duty mailman) to notify the Australian Consulate-General of my incarceration, and, when, in April of 2003, the Consulate-General notified the jail of an impending visit the jail authorities attempted to kill me by over-medicating me [not just once, but twice within three mornings], to prevent my speaking to that representative.
 

In short, the conditions under which I have been held differ very little from those imposed upon the torture victims at Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp.
 

You have access to my records, and will find that at tome time I did, to my shame, serve for a time with US forces in South East Asia.
 

Luckily, I served as a mercenary and there was no incumbence upon me to accept US Citizenship, (which would have been utterly stupid!)
 

Granted, I consider myself to be truly British, but since I was traveling using an Australian Passport (Number L6141727, if my memory does not deceive me), I must turn to the Australian Government for succour.
 

The Australian Consulate-General has been extremely supportive as far as they are permitted by the authorities, and these deserve the greatest of praise; for, at times I have been rather hard to deal with, and also extremely agitated, recalcitrant and un-cooperative.
 

Ms. Linda Heller (my current case officer with the Consulate-General) has informed me that the laws have changed back home, and that now I may enjoy duality of citizenship, which right I intend to invoke as soon as I am freed from this place.
 

On that subject, since I have been denied a legitimate trial (under United States law), there is little choice for the authorities but to release me.
 

Unfortunately, that will cost them the income monies that my imprisonment is generating for Herr Schwarzenegger and his California Government, so they (the California Government), are obfuscating and delaying at very turn.
 

I am aware that, with the ascent to government of the Labor Party, you have a great number of works to organize.
 

Could you please spare someone to look into my case?
 

Thanking you in anticipation for your assistance,
 

Sincerely your fellow Australian,
 

M.I. STEIN